Book Review: Pregnancy,Assisted Reproduction,and Psychoanalysis

Adamson G. D. Creighton P. De Mouzon J. Zegers-Hochschild F. Dyer S. Chambers G. M. (2025). How many infants have been born with the help of assisted reproductive technology? Fertility and Sterility, 124(1):40–50. doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2025.02.009

Agarwal A. Majzoub A. Parekh N. Henkel R. (2020). A schematic overview of the current status of male infertility practice. World Journal of Men’s Health, 38(3), 308–322. doi:10.5534/wjmh.190068

Alkolombre P. (2014). The desire for a child in today parenthood: Infertility and reproductive techniques. Vertex, 25(117), 382–386.

Alkolombre P. (2023). The desire and passion for a child: Psychoanalysis and contemporary reproductive techniques. Routledge.

Athan A. M. (2020). Reproductive identity: An emerging concept. American Psychologist, 75(4), 445–456. doi:10.1037/amp0000623

Balsam R. H. (2015). The war on women in psychoanalytic theory building: Past to present. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 69(1), 83–107. doi:10.1080/00797308.2016.11785524

Balsam R. M. (2012). Women’s bodies in psychoanalysis. Routledge.

Blom I. Bekar O. (2024). Developing a maternal identity: Theoretical, developmental and clinical considerations. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 21(3), 405–429. doi:10.1080/1551806X.2024.2375985

Chamberlain M. (2022). Misogyny in psychoanalysis. Phoenix.

Chasson M. Taubman–Ben-Ari O. (2021). Personal growth of single mothers by choice in the transition to motherhood: A comparative study. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 39(3), 301–312.

Ehrensaft D. (2014). Family complexes and Oedipal circles: Mothers, fathers, babies, donors, and surrogates. In Mann M. (Ed.), Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology (pp. 19–43). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429478895-2

Fine K. (2015). Donor conception for life: Psychoanalytic reflections on new ways of conceiving the family. Karnac.

Gentile K. (2015). The business of being made: The temporalities of reproductive technologies, in psychoanalysis and culture. Routledge.

Golombok S. Ilioi E. Blake L. Roman G. Jadva V. (2017). A longitudinal study of families formed through reproductive donation: Parent-adolescent relationships and adolescent adjustment at age 14. Developmental Psychology, 53(10), 1966–1977. doi:10.1037/dev0000372

Golombok S. Jones C. Hall P. Foley S. Imrie S. Jadva V. (2023). A longitudinal study of families formed through third-party assisted reproduction: Mother–child relationships and child adjustment from infancy to adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 59(6), 1059–1073. doi:10.1037/dev0001526

Hollway W. (2001). From motherhood to maternal subjectivity. International Journal of Critical Psychology, 2, 13–38.

Jaffe J. (2014). The reproductive story: Dealing with miscarriage, stillbirth, or other perinatal demise. In Barnes D. L. (Ed.), Women’s reproductive mental health across the lifespan (pp. 159–176). Springer International. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-05116-1_9

Jain C. Khan W. (2025). Psychosocial concomitants of infertility: A narrative review. Cureus, 17(3), e80250. doi:10.7759/cureus.80250

Lo W. Campo-Engelstein L. (2018). Expanding the clinical definition of infertility to include socially infertile individuals and couples. In Campo-Engelstein L. Burcher P. (Eds.), Reproductive Ethics II (pp. 71–83). Springer International. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-89429-4_6

Mann M. (2014). Psychoanalytic aspects of assisted reproductive technology. Routledge.

Nadler C. (2023). Dyking Oedipal logics of sexual difference. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10403593

Practice Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. (2023). Definition of infertility: A committee opinion. https://www.asrm.org/globalassets/_asrm/practice-guidance/practice-guidelines/pdf/definition-of-infertility.pdf

Raphael-Leff J. (2007). Femininity and its unconscious “shadows”: Gender and generative identity in the age of biotechnology. British Journal of Psychotherapy, 23(4), 497–515. doi:10.1111/j.1752-0118.2007.00047.x

Young R. (2020). Reclaiming the female body: My journey from a one-person to a two-person psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Review, 107(3), 243–265. doi:10.1521/prev.2020.107.3.243

Zegers-Hochschild F. Adamson G. D. Dyer S. Racowsky C. De Mouzon J. Sokol R. Rienzi L. Sunde A. Schmidt L. Cooke I. D. Simpson J. L. Van Der Poel S. (2017). The international glossary on infertility and fertility care, 2017. Fertility and Sterility, 108(3), 393–406. doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2017.06.005